The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 626 Re-Establishing the Forbidden Army
A strong self-confidence exudes from Zhao Dongting.

This is probably the so-called domineering king.

Zhongsun Guge was the first to bear the brunt, and he couldn't help being slightly stunned.

Zhao Dongting's words can be said to be extremely arrogant, but he doesn't think there is any moisture in them.

The army of the Great Song Dynasty was turned back by the little emperor when the situation was desperate, and took down Guangxi South Road and other places with such force that the Yuan Dynasty had no choice but to choose the initiative to make peace.Although it is true that the national power of the Song Dynasty is empty now, it is not difficult to break the Xixia army like Kuizhou during the holidays.

The initiative seemed to be entirely in the hands of the little emperor of Song Dynasty.

Zhongsun Guge, who was over fifty years old, smiled wryly in his heart.

He hadn't dealt with Zhao Dongting very much, so he had a personal experience that this well-known young emperor of the Song Dynasty was really difficult to deal with.

While he was still collecting words, Zhao Dongting said again, "Okay, go down! Just pass on what I said to you, the Emperor of Xixia. When he shows enough sincerity, I will do nothing." It’s time to send people to take over Kuizhou. Oh, yes, I don’t mind reminding you kindly that the White Horse Army in Central Shu is not as easy to deal with as you imagine. If you want to take over Kuizhou, you’d better hurry up Otherwise, there are nine out of ten chances that before I take over Kuizhou, your Xixia army has already been driven back to Lizhou East Road by the White Horse Army."

After saying this, he walked directly into the Zangshu Pavilion.

Zhongsun Guge stared at Zhao Dongting's back, froze for a while, and then slowly left the palace.The look is obviously not good-looking.

After he returned to the official residence, he honestly passed on Zhao Dongting's words to Lizhou East Road by carrier pigeon.

It's just that the Xixia army had just arrived in Chongqing, so naturally no pigeons were sent to Lizhou East Road.Lizhou East Road can only send a report to Chongqing government with an urgent report of [-] miles a day.

There are two days in between.

After Li Wangyuan, Zhongsun Qifu and others received the Kuaima Jibao in Chongqing Mansion, they undoubtedly felt extremely bitter when they saw the contents of the letter.

It was originally a coup to send a master to hijack Zhao Bing, but after the failure, it now seems that he is shooting himself in the foot with a stone.

It turned out that the Great Song Emperor was not as talkative as he had imagined, and their actions had undoubtedly angered the hottest young emperor in the Central Plains.

Li Wangyuan smiled wryly, and said to Zhongsun Qifu: "Teacher, what should we give to Song Chao?"

His words have already shown that he will not change his mind, and would rather shed some blood.

Zhongsun Qifu also smiled wryly, and said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty clearly wants to benefit. Then there will be no such things as gold and silver, food, war horses, cloth, etc. Now that the weapons of the Song Dynasty are flourishing, if we send them weapons for future use Compensation, they will definitely look down on it."

Li Wangyuan said: "Then give some?"

All the officials of Xixia in the hall felt a little aggrieved, but at this moment, they obviously had nothing to say.

The letter from Changsha said that the Emperor Song was not in a hurry to take Kuizhou, which made them passive.It's like a cake that was originally a sweet pastry, but it was suddenly disliked by others.

Now it is no longer the Song Dynasty begging them to exchange Kuizhou for Li Xiushu, but they want to stuff the hot potato of Kuizhou into the hands of the Song Dynasty.

Zhongsun Qifu stroked his beard lightly, and said: "Your Majesty, the food production in my dynasty was not high. Although I have stocked up over the years, if I send it to the Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it will be hard to deal with wars in the future. According to the veteran , it is better to send gold, silver, and war horses. Although the Song Dynasty got gold and silver, it is difficult to relieve the emptiness of the national treasury in a short time, and we have no shortage of war horses. In this way, we will not be injured. They Song Chaoming If you get benefits on the surface, you will not be able to quickly improve your national strength."

"Ah."

Li Wangyuan nodded slowly, "What the teacher said is true, then do as the teacher said. As for the amount of gold, silver and war horses, it is also up to the teacher to decide."

Li Wangyuan doesn't have many strengths, but he has self-knowledge.He knew that he was not good at these state affairs, so he was willing to rely heavily on Zhongsun Qifu and others.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the old officials of Xixia still support Li Wangyuan.

If Li Wangyuan is self-willed and thinks he is a descendant of the royal family, it will be great, and it will kill the patience of these old Xixia officials.It's hard to say that he will really end up in power.

"Yes."

Zhongsun Qifu took the order, and immediately left with all the ministers to discuss carefully.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty might not be satisfied if he gave less, but if he gave too much, he was afraid that the appetite of the Song Dynasty would be raised, and he felt distressed.Therefore, there are still many standards to be determined.

To put it bluntly, this is actually similar to haggling when buying something.

Sellers have a seller's bottom line, and buyers have a buyer's bottom line.The final outcome depends on who can grasp the opponent's bottom line.

In Changsha City.

After Zhao Dongting implemented several new policies in the political circle, the food and grass newly received by the imperial court failed to fill the national treasury, and even if they were still in various places, they were divided by the defenders and forbidden troops.Those who arrived in Changsha were sent to the Tiankui Army and other five armies by Zhao Dongting's order before they could reach the grain depot.The Changsha grain depot is still empty.

This has always made Chen Jianghan, the Minister of Finance who is in charge of grain and treasury, very heartbroken, and he blinks less these days.

But with the support of food and grass, the defenders and imperial guards who had tightened their belts and were worried at any time after eating this meal finally stabilized their morale.

Apart from serving the country, everyone joins the army for the purpose of having a full meal.

Zhao Dongting's successive imperial edicts spread to Fujian and Guangnan East Road like a shocking day.He ordered Huang Hua, the appeasement envoy of Fujian, to transfer 3 people from the Toutuo Army under his command to join the Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty. Shi Kaiji, the former She democratic general who served as the pacifier on Guangnan East Road, and Shi Kaiji, who was extremely relied on by Mrs. Xu, also recruited 3 people from the She people to join the forbidden army, namely the Tiansu Army, Tianyi Army, and Tiankill Army.

These are probably the troops that can be drawn close to the limit from the Thutuo Army and the Shemin Army. Excluding these people, almost only the defenders of the cities are left.

As for the [-] forbidden troops, Zhao Dongting asked Huang Hua and Shi Kaiji to put them under the jurisdiction of the military commander Wen Tianxiang without accident.

Fortunately, both the Toutuo Army and the She people are now firmly attached to the Song Dynasty, so Huang Hua and Shi Kaiji are not dissatisfied.

Of course, the main reason for this may be the reason why Zhao Dongting appointed the two of them as Fujian appeasement envoys and Guangnan East Road appease envoys respectively.

This is definitely regarded as a feudal official in the Song court.

There is also a place for the Toutuo army and the She people to thrive.

The trust of the emperor cannot be offset by simply dispatching tens of thousands of soldiers to supplement the imperial army.

And Zhao Dongting also has an imperial decree, ordering the Feitian Army and Feilong Army to rush back to Changsha.

Song and Yuan negotiated a peace, and there was obviously no need for these two special forces of the Song Dynasty to stay in Fujian.

The homing pigeons have arrived in Changsha again.

Zhongsun Guge entered the palace again, and was still received by Zhao Dongting outside Wudingtang Zangshu Pavilion.

As soon as they met, he took out the secret letter from his sleeve robe, handed it to Zhao Dongting, and said, "Your Majesty, this is a letter from my Majesty the Emperor."

Zhao Dongting opened the letter and said, "10 taels of silver and [-] war horses."

That's just ten words.

But these words fell into Zhongsun Guge's ears, which made his face full of heartache.

10 taels of silver, this is definitely not a small amount.

But he still had to look carefully at Zhao Dongting's face, fearing that the Great Song Emperor would still refuse to agree.

What made him both angry and helpless was that the Great Song Emperor didn't really show any satisfaction, but frowned slightly.

Zhao Dongting looked at Zhongsun Guge, who seemed indifferent, and said: "You Xixia are too stingy. With such a small amount of silver, our Song Dynasty really has no shortage. It seems that if I don't clearly mark the price, it will be difficult for you." Give me a price that satisfies me. In this way, you write back and tell your emperor to double the silver and horses, and I promise to send troops to take over Kuizhou and send your Princess Li Xiushu back to your Xixia emperor safe and sound. How about going in front of me?"

Zhongsun Guge was full of elegance, so he was trembling a little at this moment.

Fortunately, he still has self-restraint, he was silent for dozens of seconds, and said: "Your Majesty, if you double it, isn't it... Our Western Xia is not rich, so I'm afraid we can't get it out..."

But Zhao Dongting only said: "Whether you can take it out or not, you Zhongsun Guge can't count what you say. You just pass on my words back."

Zhongsun Guge was aggrieved.

Originally, I thought it was a good job to be an envoy to the Song Dynasty, but now I always feel that this is really a hard job.If you bow your head and don't say anything, you have to be looked down upon by the Song emperor.

As an envoy, he was also the third rank of the Zhenger Eight Classics in the Xixia Dynasty.Speaking from the mouth of the Great Song Emperor, it was just like a ninth-rank sesame official.

(End of this chapter)